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KeithG
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On our recent Bonaire trip we witnessed the dive behaviour of several different "scuba club vacation trip" groups. It seemed chaotic and very lax...reminded me of "trust me" dives.The most obvious red flag was a total breakdown of the dive buddy system. The group dived as a group. Mostly a random cluster. The dive OP was very clear that the buddy system was to be employed, but left it up to the divers to arrange buddy teams.
On the boat dives it was very clear that once we hit the water none of the club trip divers had a buddy. I expected to easily be able to identify groups of two's. Nope. They were spread out randomly over several hundred feet. No buddys, just a cluster with lots of singles around the extreme edges.
I am curious to learn why these types of divers can not maintain something as simple as the buddy team concept.
It reminded me of my impression of Cozumel dives described here on SB where everyone buddys with the DM. I noted that each group seemed to have a very strong (mine's WAY bigger) "alpha diver". Maybe the alpha diver was the DM substitute?
Any ideas why these people tend to group dive and not buddy team dive?
On the boat dives it was very clear that once we hit the water none of the club trip divers had a buddy. I expected to easily be able to identify groups of two's. Nope. They were spread out randomly over several hundred feet. No buddys, just a cluster with lots of singles around the extreme edges.
I am curious to learn why these types of divers can not maintain something as simple as the buddy team concept.
It reminded me of my impression of Cozumel dives described here on SB where everyone buddys with the DM. I noted that each group seemed to have a very strong (mine's WAY bigger) "alpha diver". Maybe the alpha diver was the DM substitute?
Any ideas why these people tend to group dive and not buddy team dive?